Graduate Student Glennon Bythrow Receives Provost’s Alfred W. Alberts Award in Biochemistry Graduate student Glennon Bythrow received the provost’s Alfred W. Alberts Award in Biochemistry. Alberts ’53 discovered lovastatin, the first of the class of cholesterol-lowering drugs called statins. Each year the Read More
Biology Professor Juergen Polle Featured at Annual Algae Conference Biology professor Juergen Polle moderated and spoke in the session “Genetic Modification: A Key to Improving Algae Feasibility?” at the 13th annual Algae Biomass Summit in Orlando, Florida, in September. Read More
Graduate Student Avdar San Receives Provost’s Pre-Dissertation Research Fellowship for the Sciences Graduate student Avdar San received the Early Research Initiative Provost’s Pre-Dissertation Research Fellowship for the Sciences. The $5,000 award recognizes academic interests and achievement and is intended to help support Read More
Biology Graduate Student Manal Farhat Receives Provost’s Estelle and James T. Ramey Scholarship Biology graduate student Manal Farhat received the provost’s Estelle and James T. Ramey Scholarship. Read More
HNS Professor Gets NIH Grant Melissa Fuster Rivera, assistant professor in the Health and Nutrition Sciences Department, was awarded an NIH mentored research grant to help fund her research on interventions to improve cardiovascular health Read More
Biology Chair to Moderate Panel at American Society of Microbiology Conference Peter Lipke, chair of the Biology Department, will moderate a session at the American Society of Microbiology’s annual microbe conference in Chicago next June. The session is titled “The Leaks Read More
Three Literary Alums Shortlisted for the National Book Award Greg Grandin ’92, along with M.F.A. in creative writing alumni Helen Phillips ’07, and Ocean Vuong ’12, and are all shortlisted for the 2019 National Book Awards—Phillips for her novel Read More
Political Science Professor Pens Forthcoming Book on Vietnam and the Third Indochina War Assistant Professor Kosal Path, of the Political Science Department, has a new book out in February: Vietnam’s Strategic Thinking During the Third Indochina War (University of Wisconsin Press, 2020). The Read More
AREAC featured in Excelsior AREAC was the subject of an Excelsior feature on March 21, 2018, entitled “Brooklyn College in the Know: Aquatic Research and Environmental Assessment Center,” by Sandy Mui. Read More
AREAC Featured in the Brooklyn College Magazine Brooklyn College Magazine (Spring 2009) has a feature article, “Fish and Other Aquatic Life Forms,” about AREAC, and mentions Jennifer Basil, Brett Branco, Rob Dickie, John Marra and Martin Schreibman. Read More
